Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-10-14
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3 T. 80 M 40 MORAL sins ana streets
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"a lore than than that. Positively
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Cont ses L exactly in that light
iec.iise You don't. That is because you
I - reporter, and to you any house is q good
1 hioss SO fong as the rooms are clean, com
fcttahlc mid well furnished. Now If you
Ners an artist you would very SOON discover;
ASbe depravity Of New York architecture
Look. et that house across the street.
Al square plain front this house had, with !
narrow, CRASHES plot on either side Of the
bread steps. So farfthis house was as moral
adWelli,,g IS theInost orthodox and straight
laced artist could have desired. The windows
( wera large and the Interior was concealed by
broad curtains Of q dark green material.
There was nothing sinful about the windows
the wickedness was shown iii the roof, which
was gableti and otherwise distorted out of all
sembInnca Of Christian form.
sWhat do you think of that.' asked the
artist III. X Pill ts1 IS q s$5 r. HSss
That is somewhat faulty"
" Somewhat Why, dear boy, it not only
breaks all the commandments ut once, but
positively grinds the stone into sand for its
nlortar. II that house is hot a mortal sin
am no theologian. But that is not all. Look
along that lire of abandoned structures. Oh
serve the rascaIly contour of the roof There
Snnevcnness in that line. II is not even bad
enough to he good. It lacks the graphic vii
lniny Of band Of Texas train robbers which
pleases the eye and interests the intelligence,
however panied the heart may be- 1t only
presents the bald and witless prosiness OF Il
collection OF stale beer drinkers In all east
side police court on a Monday morning. Such
depravity Is disgusting
sAren't you little hard OH our nlchitec-
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4 "A MORAL MONsrRosITY. e s! 4
ut is not our architecture II is not any
sSiles architecture. 1t is notalchitecture
at all We can't be too hard on such all IN
decent exhibition Of criminal taste. In every
large European capital there is a symmetry in
the styles Of architecture, 1t is divided into
the old, the Renaissance u,ld the modern
usually, aud the buildings are grouped to-
gether in an honest and virtuous way. Such
buildings are models. They are patterns and
do tue world good. Take Boston, and parts
OF Washington. There you find ARCHITECT
tnral rectitlde. But in New York all the
crimes Ii the artistic calendar are exempli-
fled with diabolical plenitllie that must
warm the cookies of tile old boys heart every
time his mind reyerts to the subject. Fifth
avenue is Il moral monstrosity. Broadway
il all example of abandoned wickedness that
ought to make Christian shudder to con-
template, and the side streets from Tenth
street to the Harlem river contain rampant
crime enough to keep the hangnian busy
until the morning after the cracl: Of doom.
You never looked at it In that light, did
you9" "a r..
a54 mo, not exactly" ~ s15 2 ,+ass ..:sz
swell. that is not the worst OF it, The eff
feet OF living among sins so generously dis.
played and universally condoned must be per-
nicious in the extreme. 1t stands to reason
that nitii 1nlst fie sriornte who lives In a
structure which has robbed tile grave;of the
Sixteenth century for ias roof, stolen its stoop
from tho tomb Of tile Seventeenth century,
3robbei tho archives OF the last century fp, It's
windows, and purloined its cornices from tho
notebook of n dipsomnniacal builder IN the
last stages OF mania potu. Can You he sur
prised when such man robs abank, murders
his wife, runs for u political Office or commits
some other social errora No, sir; our alleged
architecture is fruitful cause of crime, q
national curse, a social pest and the soouer a
law j. enacted Furnishing such crimes as.se-
verely as they deserve, the better it will be
for this country. What we need Is a home
missionary society for the salvation Of de-
PRAYED buildings, with mission house on
Fifth avenuuc, opposite st. Patrick's cathe-
dral, where the chief offenders may have an
opportunity close at hand to mend their ways
and be saved before q seismic Nemesis avenges
their crimes against patient md outraged
nature. New York Mailan Express